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  • 2025.05.29 Emily Randall ’08 vision in politics Bainbridge Island Review

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    From an early age, U.S. Rep. Emily Randall ’08 of Washington state’s 6th Congressional District seemed destined to enter politics to fix what she viewed as wrongs in society.

  • 2025.05.27 Professor Ismar Volić awarded 2025 Euler Book Prize

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    The Mathematical Association of America announces that professor of mathematics and director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy Ismar Volić has been awarded the 2025 Euler Book Prize.

  • 2025.05.27 Levine college estimated tax bills Wall Street Journal

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    Economist Phillip Levine estimated Yale’s tax bill could jump from $46 million currently to $691 million under the tiered plan. MIT’s could go from $27 million to $411 million, according to Levine.

  • 2025.05.26 Udofia '06 Nominee Elliot Norton Awards

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    For 40+ years, the Elliot Norton Awards have honored the best of the best on stage in Greater Boston. Among this year's nominees are several plays in the Ufot Family Cycle by Mfoniso Udofia '06.

  • 2025.05.26 Class of 2020 covid commencement WBUR

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    This past weekend, members of Wellesley’s COVID class of 2020 officially graduated. Here & Now producer Kalyani Saxena ’20 was one of them, and she reflected on that rite of passage with Asma Khalid.

  • 2025.05.20 Levine 21% endowment tax The New York Times

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    The proposal threatens to cost Harvard about $850 million a year, Yale $690 million year, and Princeton $586 million a year, according to estimates by economics professor Phillip Levine.

  • 2025.05.20 Levine Swarthmore's wait-and-see budget The Chronicle of Higher Education

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    Economist Phillip Levine never heard of a college adopting a wait-and-see budgeting approach like Swarthmore’s. “It’s a creative solution… idiosyncratic of the times that we are currently living in.”

  • 2025.05.14 Paula Johnson among 60 college presidents share grad messages The Boston Globe

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    60 college presidents, including Paula Johnson, are sharing messages about civic discourse, democratic participation, and free expression to inspire grads to think critically and engage with empathy.

  • 2025.05.14 Levine calculates nine schools with highest taxation The Boston Globe

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    Economics professor Phillip Levine calculated that nine schools would hit the top tax rate, and Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and MIT would each owe more than $410 million in taxes a year.